Greetings and Welcome to the Lay Ministry & Planning Office

Michael  Davis

Office of Lay Ministry  & Planning                           
800-252-9325 (Nebraska)
308-532-2707
1225 S. Poplar Suite 100
North Platte, NE  69101

mdavis@gidiocese.org   


   Strategic Planning Documents 

         
  “Entrust your works to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.”        Proverbs 16:3

 

Priorities of the Office of Lay Ministry

Assist those who are specifically called to fulfill their Baptismal Dignity as Lay Ecclesial Ministers.  Help with formation through discernment and resources.   Four Areas of Formation:

  1. Spiritual
  2. Human Relations 
  3. Intellectual
  4. Pastoral
    Commissioning of Lay Ecclesial MinistersBishop Dendinger with , Terri Calvert, Seth Vapenik, Pat Mertz, Jack Mertz, Edward Montgomery, Paul Vostades
     & Michael Davis Left to Right     

Bridgeport - All Souls, Oct. 22, 2011 

      Call for your copy of the DVD- Fields Ripe for the Harvest! 

 Lay Leader Training Video and Study Guide for parish councils and lay leaders!                                                            

Did you know that the majority of Young Adults who are serving parishes are in the Midwest?  Follow this link to read more...

 

http://data.memberclicks.com/site/nalm/11_Fall_NALM_Newsletter.pdf
   
* FORMS click Formation  
    * FORMS for Pastoral Ministry Internship    ( Word 2007)  
       FORMS for Pastoral Ministry Internship    ( Word 2003)  

 

       

Some beginning thoughts regarding Strategic Planning & Lay Ministry…..

In a famous passage attributed to Cardinal Dearden, and later to Archbishop Romero,

“The Kingdom is not only beyond our effort, it is beyond our vision.   We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete….

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, and opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest….”